Citation

Blick KA, Howe JB. J. Psychol. 1984; 116(1st Half): 143-146.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1984, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/00223980.1984.9923629

PMID

6699792

Abstract

Twenty-four college and 37 elderly women kept diaries for six weeks, at the end of which they voluntarily submitted them for analysis. The college women selected significantly more emotions for their dreams than did the elderly women. Enjoyment-joy accounted for a significantly higher proportion of emotions in dreams of elderly than in those of college women; but anger-rage and fear-terror occurred significantly less often in dreams of the elderly. The results were interpreted as providing support for the continuity hypothesis which states that dream content is a reflection of one's daily life.

Language: en